PDA

View Full Version : Dual booting xp and Ubuntu (both OS's on diffeent drives)



cje
23-11-2009, 10:24 PM
Sorry a bit of a noob when it comes to Ubuntu and more than 1 OS on the system.

While my Striker II is away being RMA'd I'm currently bacl on my old P4 system. It's an old advent pc that's been butchered quite a bit. It's running a P4 3.2ghz E prescott (HOT!), 7600GT, ECS SF2 (with a bad bios flash, but cant repair it, but somehow still alive. It says unkown flash on boot up. :) But cant reflash it as it says size doesnt match. Anyway, it still works sort of) and 2gb of ram.

The system is limping along, so I wwas thinking maybe I could try Ubuntu on it.

I have two identical IDE 160gb WD drives. One master and one in slave (both are identical as I imaged one from the other.) I am going to wipe one and reformat, then install Ubuntu.

Is there a way of setting it up to dual boot properly? Or do I just bang the Ubuntu disk in the cd drive, and install it on the slave IDE drive?

Cheers.

mrgoose
23-11-2009, 11:03 PM
Quite a few good ideas in this thread:-
http://forum.novatech.co.uk/showthread.php?p=212674

Alternatively, if you are actually using separate drives then you could try removable disk caddies for the boot drives? That's what we did during our transition from Windows to Linux - because it is quick, simple and foolproof.

Removable caddies cost about 25 quid and mean you can try lots of OS's without messing about with multi boot - or jeopardising OS setups that are working OK. Actually, we still use them today to test safely new distros before we deploy them.

Just a thought, best wishes, G.